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Zionist McCain suggest Zionist Kerry is responsible for Egypt violence

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Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) has suggested that Secretary of State John Kerry bears some responsibility for the Egyptian security forces’ brutal crackdown on protesters.

“As we predicted and feared, chaos in Cairo,” McCain tweeted Wednesday after scores of protesters were killed, The Hill reports. “Sec Kerry praising the military takeover didn’t help.”

Earlier this month, Kerry credited Egypt’s generals for their democratic intentions and their role in preventing a civil war in the country.

He said the US-backed Egyptian military was “restoring democracy” when it ousted Mohamed Morsi, the country’s first democratically elected president, and his Muslim Brotherhood government.

Kerry, however, has been forced to change his tune as the interim government in Egypt steps up its violent clampdown on pro-Morsi protesters.

On Wednesday scores of people were killed after security forces raided two anti-regime camps in Cairo. The Health Ministry said 235 civilians were killed and more than 2,000 injured across Egypt on Wednesday.

Kerry condemned the Wednesday’s events as “deplorable,” but stopped short of saying whether the United States would take any concrete steps to pressure the military into halting its violent crackdown.

“The United States strongly condemns today’s violence and bloodshed across Egypt,” the secretary said in an address at the State Department on Wednesday.

“It’s a serious blow to reconciliation and the Egyptian people’s hopes for a transition towards democracy and inclusion.”

The White House has not called the July 3 military-led ouster of Morsi a coup as such acknowledgement would have ended the $1.5 billion annual aid to Egypt in accordance with US law.

Senator McCain, who returned from a recent trip to Egypt, has admitted that Morsi’s removal was a coup. He has called on the Obama administration to freeze its military assistance to the strategically important North African country.

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